The film follows Benjamin Franklin Gates, who has inherited a 200-year-old family obsession: finding a vast treasure amassed by Freemasons and Founding Fathers (George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Paul Revere) during the Revolutionary War. The treasure is hidden somewhere in the United States, protected by a series of complex clues.
Treasure, then, but not the pirate hoard she expected. These were artifacts taken during colonial digs, silenced in government warehouses, then spirited into private hands. Her grandfather’s note had been a key to exposing a conspiracy—an archive within an archive. National Treasure